Vitality resistance mitigates a lot of life reduction and resistance to life reduction works on it, obviously. People get shotgunned by Zantarin because he has the possibility to reduce your vit res by 60% and that can send your vit res to way below 80% and make the life reduction projectiles deal way more damage. Same for Razmul, if he sends your vit res below 80% (he can because he reduce your res by 30+ flat), that melee attack will hurt way more in conjunction with the high physical damage component in it.
But the actually dangerous thing with Razmul is the physical portion of his attacks. His melee attack is just as strong as Aleks meteor and his lightning rain can deal obnoxious amounts of damage.
For me it ain’t that obvious because the Ingame Tooltips read differently.
vitality-draining / vitality-decay reads more as a DoT type thingy as the decay only affects DoT types (if you play that damage type yourself) and “drain” for me refers more to adcth which is an entirely different mechanic anyways.
in the Game Guide is also no hint to that thematic
And i have played builds like this https://www.grimtools.com/calc/d2j3RJnV that took somestimes 50% and more hp from 1 hit by said abilities which shouldn’t happen according to your statement
I have tested it and confirmed it and Zantai has confirmed it as well. You can easily test with aether tornadoes that deals life reduction. Cap aether res and then start removing items with vit res until you start going below 80% and their damage will increase.
The game guide is missing several amounts of information.
i redone the GT link from my memory since it was an old mid AoM days Char alot has changed since then so i might have missed out on something and explaining what happened to that charfile would go waay to offtopic here
would be nice if atleast the tooltips to those resistance could get some “re-wording” to better reflect against what they give protection
They have at minimun 96% resistance to life reduction. That res can also not be reduced, so even if you reduce their vit res to the negatives, they are still basically immune to life reduction.
